100,000 students and counting: Google brings VR kits to schools in 15 more cities
Google is expanding its Expeditions Pioneer Program, an initiative to help teachers and students use virtual reality in schools around the world. The program...
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang says that VR’s 250 startups remind him of the dawn of graphics chips
We’ve seen the craze around virtual reality before, like when the 3D graphics chip industry was born in the 1990s. Back then, dozens of...
Microsoft releases list of first 104 Xbox 360 backward compatibility games for Xbox One
The gaming industry is about to go backward, and this isn’t a bad thing. Xbox Live director of programming Larry “Major Nelse” Hryb today...
The sexualization of Lara Croft is a thing of the past, says Rise of the Tomb Raider writer
Lara Croft’s appearance in Rise of the Tomb Raider is a long way from her unrealistically proportioned origins back in 1996. Rhianna Pratchett, lead...
Fallout 4 is the open-world game I can’t stop playing
It’s a sick joke that, if the bombs were to go off and I was forced to live in an underground vault, I’d definitely bring...
Rise of the Tomb Raider is Lara Croft’s stunning coming-of-age tale
Rise of the Tomb Raider is a grand adventure that you won’t want to miss, even if you’re one of the people who has overdosed...
Call of Duty: Black Ops III is the best shooter game of 2015
Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops III is one of the finest installments in a series that has generated $10 billion in lifetime revenue....
Despite Fallout 4 making it a villain, MIT tries to convince us it isn’t evil
Evil scientists are potentially among us, and publisher Bethesda is trying to warn us about them with its new game. The Massachusetts Institute of...
Jersey Jack Pinball and the man that sparked pinball’s revival
We talk shop with the head of Jersey Jack Pinball about the industry and his games
Microsoft works with GameStop to help Xbox One combat PlayStation 4 Black Ops III bundle
November and December are the two most important months of the year for game sales, and Microsoft is working with a key retail partner...